View Poll Results: Which was the worst thing to be invented?

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  • Nuclear Arms

    51 36.43%
  • Gun Powder

    6 4.29%
  • Money

    72 51.43%
  • Fossil Fuels

    11 7.86%

Thread: The Worst Invention?

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    There were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror... --- Mark Twain
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    Does it have to be something tangible?
    Or can it be something like &#39;Capitalism&#39; for instance?
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    There were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror... --- Mark Twain
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    RELIGION
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    Internet polls.
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    Well if it wasn&#39;t for gun powder we&#39;d just be killing each other with spears and cross-bows so really we&#39;d have to say weapons as a whole if we were talking about negative effects on the world.
    In a way nuclear weapons act as their own deterant and have probably prevented a lot of conventional warfare so arn&#39;t reall completely bad.
    Without fossil fuels we probably wouldn&#39;t have got to the stage we&#39;re at today.
    So I guess that leaves us with money, which dosen&#39;t seem to serve any particular purpose as far as I can see...
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    personally... condoms... ekkkk&#33;


    I don&#39;t think fossil fuels were invented.. but I know you mean refined.

    I say Nuclear weapons and warheads. Weapons because it can just wipe a whole population out and warheads because you don&#39;t even have to leave home to use them.
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    Nukes are the worst by far. One press of a button and you could kill millions.
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    I think that the clapper is the worst invention ever.
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    Capitilism isn&#39;t technicaly an invention. It&#39;s just a form of government.
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    Betamax
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    You are fucking kidding&#33; Betamax was way better than VHS&#33;

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    Currency is the worst invention because it magnified differences in material wealth.

    Gun powder? It may have bought new and more terrible weapons to the battlefield, but explosives have non-combat uses as well.

    Nuclear weapons? they have (So far anyway) prevented the rich nations from ever fighting each other directly again (As in WWIII). Grow up you stupid fucking peaceniks.

    And without fossil fuels we wouldn&#39;t have modern civilisation.
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    ya the world has enough fire power to blow the world up many times over.

    With bombs like little boy and Big boy or the Tzar which is the biggest bomb to mand kind so far. The pilot was told he would probably not survive the drop.

    but nuclear bombs are by far the worst

    that and silly puddy
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    Money of course, for obvious reasons.

    All the other things can have useful purposes besides being used to build weapons.
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    I was going to say television, but that was there, so I chose nuclear arms instead.
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    Compulsory Voting, big corporations and razors ALL MEN SHOULD HAVE BEARDS... it looks good.
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    the internet was a pretty bad invention also.

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